Three Kingdoms: I am not Liu Bian

Chapter 76 I want to focus on military affairs!
Jizhou, Wei County, Yecheng Prefecture

Liu Bian, wrapped in a cloak, pushed open the door and stretched lazily, with a hint of fatigue still on his face.

He had not slept so soundly for a long time since he came to power. He slept until the afternoon. However, the rapid marches for several days caused his thighs and buttocks to ache. The skin on the inside of his thighs was rubbed and worn, which made Liu Bian frown slightly, and a trace of discomfort flashed across his face.

But the current situation in Jizhou is critical, so he naturally cannot continue to stay in Xu County.

The distance from Xu County to Ye City is 600 miles. Even if the infantry travels light, they can only travel 25 miles a day at most. If they travel more, the soldiers' physical strength and morale will be exhausted.

Therefore, Liu Bian decided to lead the cavalry on a quick march, and led Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Sun Jian, Xu Chu, Dian Wei and others to lead 8,000 elite cavalry to go ahead.

The Northern Army Cavalry and the Yulin Left and Right Cavalry were configured with one man riding three horses, and all of their war horses were good horses from Liang and Bing states. The Sanhe Knights rode two horses, and their war horses were slightly lower grade but could still be considered good horses.

The eight thousand elite cavalry galloped eighty miles a day and rested every four days. After a journey of six hundred miles, Liu Bian and others finally arrived at Yecheng for rest in the evening of the ninth day.

After washing up, Liu Bian walked to the backyard and saw that all the generals were resting there. At this time, all the generals had taken off their armor and changed into casual clothes.

Cao Cao kept reading in the pavilion and answered questions for Cao Ren beside him from time to time. Xu Chu and Dian Wei were very energetic and even had the strength to wrestle with their bare chests in this early winter.

Sun Jian drank with his four subordinates, Han Dang, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Zu Mao, laughing heartily and toasting each other from time to time. What Liu Bian found most interesting was Xiahou Yuan, who came up to Lu Bu to ask for advice on cavalry raid tactics.

Although everyone relaxed in different ways, Liu Bian noticed that there was not much fatigue on their faces.

Fu Xie, who was drinking tea alone at the side, was sharp-eyed. When he saw the prince arrive, he quickly put down his teacup and called everyone to greet him.

Liu Bian wore a gentle smile, and as he helped everyone along, he sat down at the same table with Fu Xie and asked curiously, "Nan Rong (Fu Xie's courtesy name), I remember you were the Imperial Guard Commander in Chief of the Infantry, and you've never commanded cavalry before. This time, the cavalry marched six hundred miles at a rapid pace, but why don't you look tired?"

Fu Xie, from Lingzhou County, Beidi Commandery. Liu Bian had no impression of this name, but when he heard that Fu Xie was the Marquis of Yiyang in the Western Han Dynasty, he immediately became interested and asked Huangfu Song for him.

Even if someone hasn't heard of Fu Jiezi, they've undoubtedly heard his famous quote: "The Han army is approaching! Don't dare to move. If you do, your nation will be destroyed!"

As a descendant of Fu Jiezi, Fu Xie was eight feet tall and had a dignified look. He studied under Guanglu Dafu Liu Kuan and was also a political rising star in the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Fu Xie was also highly valued by Huangfu Song. When Huangfu Song was the prefect of Beidi, he took Fu Xie, a native of Beidi County, with him and taught him the key points of military strategy, and they also developed a master-disciple relationship.

Liu Bian personally asked Huangfu Song for help several times, but Huangfu Song still refused to release the person. It was not until Liu Bian became so angry that he acted like a rogue and issued an imperial decree to kidnap the person openly that Huangfu Song had no choice but to give in.

Of course, he could see that Huangfu Song's refusal to release his disciples was just a deliberate attempt to raise the value of his own disciples, but he didn't mind these little tricks.

The thing about Fu Xie that satisfied Liu Bian the most was that, firstly, he was a disciple of a relative of the Han royal family, and naturally had a high degree of loyalty to the Han Dynasty, and also abided by the constraints of etiquette and laws; secondly, although Fu Xie studied the modern classics, he was not a modern scholar.

Fu Xie bowed to the prince and replied, "Although I have never led cavalry, I am from Beidi County. Although I did not grow up on horseback like Captain Lu, I have also been riding since I was a child." Seeing that everyone was like this, Liu Bian couldn't help but sigh.

He also knew that the Tunqi, Yueqi and Sanhe knights were all elite cavalry, and that traveling a hundred miles a day should not be a problem as long as they maintained a certain combat effectiveness and a certain loss rate of warhorses. In other words, he, the prince, was actually slowing down the army's advance.

But he had to join the army. If he didn't, he would have been stunned by the impeachment memorials from the Secretariat and the Imperial Censors.

It is true that Lu Zhi's mother believed in the Taiping Dao, but since the Taiping Dao was labeled as an obscene worship, his mother no longer believed in it. However, Zhang Jue happened to know that Lu's mother had believed in the Taiping Dao, so he wrote a letter asking Zhang Rang's followers to persuade Lu's mother, but the letter was intercepted by Wang Yun.

Wang Yun was not a good person either. After intercepting the letter, he was unwilling to do nothing, but was worried about angering the prince. So he simply sent the letter to Yuan Wei's house and handed the decision-making power to Yuan Wei, while he himself acted like a non-stick pan.

He had some credit for the success, but when it failed, he just sent the letter to the Three Dukes' Mansion to request verification of its authenticity. He did not impeach Lu Zhi. It was legal and compliant and there was no problem with it.

After He Yong committed suicide by disembowelment, impeachment memorials were sent to Yingchuan County almost in cartloads, but he could not deal with Lu Zhi.

He knew that Lu Zhi was wronged, but the world did not know. If he protected him at all costs, it would inevitably cause unrest. However, if he removed Lu Zhi, the current situation would not allow it, and he was even more reluctant.

Since he can't afford to offend, then the prince will just hide.

As long as I run fast enough, the impeachment memorials will not be able to catch up with me!
I don't know anything, what should I do?
It was not until he entered Yecheng that the report arrived.

Oh, Jia Xu was assassinated.

With Jia Wenhe's personality, would he dare to go into dangerous places without wearing two sets of armor?

Are those people in embroidered clothes who can shield him from arrows at critical moments just sitting there doing nothing?
Although Han Fu, Zhang Miao, Hu Wuban and other modern scholars lacked a sense of the overall situation and caused trouble for him behind the scenes, they did not go so far as to collude with the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Moreover, this incident happened too coincidentally. If he couldn't guess what the sinister Jia Xu had done, then he would have no chance of becoming the crown prince.

However, once Jia Xu is provoked, he will not simply fight back.

This time, Jia Xu directly forced the old man Yang Ci to come in person to ask for peace, which made Guo Hong, Jia Xu and others gain enough face, and also completely prevented the Modern Literature School from causing unrest again.

Finally, at Yang Ci's request for peace, both sides unanimously decided to classify Zhang Jue's letter as a clumsy plot to sow discord. Not only did this clear Lu Zhi of suspicion, but He Yong, the "loyal and righteous man", was also labeled a traitor who colluded with the Yellow Turbans to alienate important officials. He was despised by all the scholars!
At the same time, Jia Xu also extorted a amount of ransom from the various schools of modern literature... ahem, he accepted a batch of military funds voluntarily donated by the families of the arrested Han Fu, Zhang Miao, Hu Muban and others to express their loyalty to the court in suppressing the rebellion.

Hey, Jia Xu even deliberately declined three times, which really disgusted the modern literary school!
In this way, Liu Bian was completely relieved and no longer had to be chased by the impeachment memorials that were carried from Yingchuan County to Chenliu County and then to Wei County.

Now that the rear is stable...I have to focus on military affairs!

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